The state also scored well with only 12.8 percent of adults in fair or poor health (5th lowest in the U.S.), but ranked 11th from the top in the state's with the highest percentage of alcohol-related driving deaths (35.2%).

The Midwest as a whole didn't fare well in the study.

North Dakota (1), Wisconsin (2), Minnesota (6), Iowa (7), and Nebraska (9) all land in the top ten with more than 20 percent of adults drinking excessively.

Southern states were at the opposite end of the spectrum. Arkansas (42), Mississippi (46), Alabama (47), and Tennessee (50) all had excessive drinking rates of about 15 percent or less.

According to the CDC, over drinking claims nearly 90,000 thousand American lives each year.